Sushi

Sushi is possibly the best known Japanese dish
in the world. It has managed to penetrate the higher echelons of trendy dining
in a way that its compatriot sukiyaki, which breached
Western palates a generation earlier, was never able to do.

Sushi can be written at least three ways in Chinese characters: ,
, and .
Neither ,
and is approved
in the Joyo Kanji.

The following are examples of different ways sushi
is written in restaurant signs. All except the third were within metres of each
other (two belonged to the same restaurant).

Tenka-zushi
Tenka sushi

Sushi
Sushi

Akasaka Sushi Hozumi
Akasaka Sushi Hozumi

Sushi
Sushi

I did not manage to find any examples of .

The following are Google results for the word sushi
on the Internet (August 2003):